of Sligo. In the following decades he represented Mayo (1800–1818) and Kilkenny city (1820–26), strongly supporting military coercion in Ireland. However, he was still a supporter of catholic emancipation. Family He married his cousin Anne Mahon (died 1833) of Castlegar, County Galway, in 1790, having five sons and four daughters. Two of his sons, James and Peter, also served in the commons from the 1820s. He was instrumental in securing the election of his cousin, Dominick Browne, 1st Baron Oranmore and Browne, supposedly encouraging him to fight a duel to gain votes (Martyn, 2001). He died at his home in Claremorris. A portrait of him by Sir Joshua Reynolds hangs in Westport House. References Westport House and the Brownes, Denis Browne, Westport, 1981 Land and popular politics in Ireland: Co. Mayo from plantation to the land war, Donald Jordan, 1994 The Tribes of Galway, Adrian James Martyn, Galway, 2001 Dictionary of Irish Biography, pp. 902–03, Cambridge, 2010 External links 1763 births 1828 deaths Politicians from County Mayo High Sheriffs of Mayo 5th Royal Irish Lancers officers Irish duellists Younger sons of earls Denis Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Irish MPs 1776–1783 Irish MPs 1783–1790 Irish MPs 1790–1797 Irish MPs 1798–1800 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Mayo constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1801–1802 UK MPs 1802–1806 UK MPs 1807–1812 UK MPs 1812–1818 UK MPs 1820–1826 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Mayo constituencies